Kate O’Flaherty reports: UK supermarket Morrisons is facing a massive payout to staff after losing the first data leak class action in the UK. It comes after Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor at the retailer’s Bradford headquarters, leaked employee data online in 2014. Last year, a court ruled the firm was liable for his actions….
GSA Took 800 Days to Notify Some Data Breach Victims
Joseph Marks reports: It took the General Services Administration more than 800 days to notify a handful of people that it had accidentally exposed their personal information, according to an audit released Friday. In another case, the agency took six months just to determine that a data breach related to background investigation information had occurred,…
Recent attempts to extort me
Sometimes I tweet these, but I thought that I’d post the most recent three emails demanding I pay extortion or else the criminals will allegedly post video of me that they captured while I allegedly masturbated while allegedly watching a porno site. I say “allegedly” although the criminals try to write as this is all…
Super Micro trashes Bloomberg chip hack story in recent customer letter
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a letter sent to customers last week, Super Micro Computer (dba Supermicro) has thrashed a Bloomberg article that claimed the company’s motherboards contained a secret chip inserted by the Chinese government for cyber-espionage purposes. “We are confident that a recent article, alleging a malicious hardware chip was implanted during the manufacturing…
National Ambulatory Hernia Institute notifies almost 16,000 patients of Gamma ransomware attack
On October 5, HHS received a HIPAA breach notification from the National Ambulatory Hernia Institute in California. According to the notification, the incident affected 15,974 patients. A notice prominently displayed on NAHI’s site explains that there was a ransomware incident on September 13. URGENT NOTICE – DATA BREACH SUSPECTED URGENT NOTICE: Our office has experienced a…
Indiana National Guard reports ransomware attack to server
WISH-TV reports: The Indiana National Guard revealed Thursday that a state, nonmilitary server with identifying information of its personnel was the subject of a ransomware attack. The Guard said in a news release from Master Sgt. Jeff Lowry: “As a result of this action we are in the process of notifying personnel that may be affected,…